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Simon Kuper, Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK

Profile Books, 2022. 231 pp., ISBN: 978-1-78816-738-3

Author: Quassim Cassam

Published in: Society | Issue 5/2022

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Every time one thinks that British politics could not sink any lower, it plumbs new depths. When a chancer like Boris Johnson has the keys to 10 Downing Street, something has gone badly wrong with the body politic. He makes his predecessor — Theresa May — seem like a political giant, while May’s wooden and ineffective premiership did much the same for the reputation of her predecessor, David Cameron. …

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Title: Simon Kuper, Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK
Profile Books, 2022. 231 pp., ISBN: 978-1-78816-738-3
Author: Quassim Cassam
Publication date: 01-08-2022
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Society / Issue 5/2022
Print ISSN: 0147-2011
Electronic ISSN: 1936-4725
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-022-00754-4

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